Educator and Blogger Larry Ferlazzo Shows Teachers How to Improve Student Motivation in New Book
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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Larchmont, NY (PRWEB) May 05, 2011
Drawing from both his experiences as a high school teacher and as a community organizer, award-winning educator Larry Ferlazzo has written Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers to Classroom Challenges, published by Eye On Education.
The book presents lesson plans and "on-the-spot" intervention tools aimed at engaging students and helping educators connect with their pupils' personal interests. As an English and social studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California, Ferlazzo knows how difficult it can be to stimulate young student minds. "It's not unusual for teachers to feel like they're pushing a rope. The instructional strategies in my book can help students want to use their rope to pull themselves up on their own," says Ferlazzo.
Helping Students Motivate Themselves is geared towards middle and high school
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